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Kamuela, Hawaii — University of Texas at Austin astronomer Steven Finkelstein
has led a team that has discovered and measured the distance to the most
distant galaxy ever found, using the W. M....
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Kamuela, Hawaii — Powerful new survey telescopes led by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) are being combined with the W. M. Keck Observatory to provide insight into rare, exotic...
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Kamuela, HI -- Astronomers have found the shattered remains of an asteroid that contained huge amounts of water orbiting an exhausted star, or white dwarf. This suggests that the star GD 61 and its...
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Kamuela, HI -- Combining observations from the world’s largest telescopes with small telescopes used by amateur astronomers, a team of scientists discovered that the large main-belt asteroid (87)...
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Kamuela, HI -- Astronomers have
detected cold streams of primordial hydrogen, vestigial matter left over from
the Big Bang, fueling a distant star-forming galaxy in the early Universe. Profuse flows...
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Kamuela, Hawaii -- The densest galaxy in the nearby Universe may have been found. Packed
with an extraordinary number of stars, this unusual galaxy is providing
astronomers with clues to its...
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Kamuela, Hawaii – Star clusters with properties not seen before have been discovered by an international team of astrophysicists, led by Swinburne University of Technology’s Professor Duncan...
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Kamuela, HI -- A team of scientists recently confirmed six, and possibly seven, planets orbiting a star system a mere 22 light-years from Earth. More importantly, three of those planets are...
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Kamuela, Hawaii -- The least massive galaxy in the known universe has been measured by UC Irvine scientists, clocking in at just 1,000 or so stars with a bit of dark matter holding them together.The...
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Kamuela, Hawaii – An international team of scientists using the most powerful telescope on Earth has discovered the moments just after the Big Bang happened more like the theory predicts,...
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